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  1. 3. the constitutional guarantee that no person or group will be denied the protection under the law that is enjoyed by similar persons or groups
  2. 7. the condition of being enslaved, held, or owned as human chattel or property; bondage.
  3. 8. the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen.
  4. 11. a practice or policy of segregating or discriminating against Black people, as in public places, public vehicles, or employment.
  5. 14. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery.
  6. 15. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, prohibiting the restriction of voting rights “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  7. 16. the practice of restricting people to certain circumscribed areas of residence or to separate institutions
Down
  1. 1. any code of law that defined and especially limited the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans in the period immediately following the Civil War.
  2. 2. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons.
  3. 4. informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era
  4. 5. a capitation tax, the payment of which is sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of suffrage.
  5. 6. the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.
  6. 8. a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War and became active in Republican politics, especially so as to profiteer from the unsettled social and political conditions of the area during Reconstruction.
  7. 9. an examination to determine whether a person meets the literacy requirements for voting, serving in the armed forces, etc.; a test of one's ability to read and write.
  8. 10. a change made by correction, addition, or deletion:
  9. 12. An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees
  10. 13. a tenant farmer who pays as rent a share of the crop.
  11. 16. the process by which the states that had seceded were reorganized as part of the Union after the Civil War.